Emmy van Deurzen

Emmy van Deurzen is a counselling psychologist, psychotherapist and philosopher. She is an international authority on existential psychotherapy and established existential therapy in the UK. She founded, directed and developed both Regent’s College School of Psychotherapy and Counselling and the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling in London. She is Professor of Psychotherapy with Schiller International University, Honorary Professor with the University of Sheffield, where she co-directs the Centre for the Study of Conflict and Reconciliation and Visiting Professor with Middlesex University, for whom she directs two masters and two doctoral programmes at NSPC.  She founded the Society for Existential Analysis (SEA) and its Journal Existential Analysis in 1988 and co-founded the International Collaborative of Existential Counsellors and Psychotherapists (ICECAP) in 2006.  She was the first chair of the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy.

Amongst her books are the bestseller Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling in Practice (2^nd edition Sage, 2002), which was widely translated as well as her book Psychotherapy and the Quest for Happiness (Sage, 2009).  A co-edited book on Existential Supervision came out in 2009 and the second edition of her textbook Everyday Mysteries was published by Routledge in 2010, whilst Sage is publishing her new co-authored book on Skills in Existential Counselling and Psychotherapy, also in 2010.

 

Monica Hanaway

Monica Hanaway is an Accredited Mediator (SPC: January 2000), and an Accredited UKCP Psychotherapist (1994), supervisor, business coach, stress management consultant and management and leadership trainer. She is Senior Lecturer on a Mediation Course at the School of Psychotherapy and Counselling Psychology (SPCP), Regent’s College, London, which has trained and accredited over 1000 mediators through its courses in London, Latvia and the Channel Islands.

She has worked for many years as a coach to senior staff in the public and private sectors and is deputy course leader for the new course in Existential Coaching which is due to start in London, in 2010. She also lectures on many aspects of psychotherapy in London and Oxford and on organizational psychology at King’s College, London.

Monica has over 20 years experience as a Senior Manager, strategist and policy maker, with a team of over 500 working to her and managing a budget of over £10million. Many of these years have been in the public sector during times of modernisation and restructuring during which she has coached individual senior managers and staff enabling them to deal creatively with change.

She is a highly experienced mediator, coach, trainer and lecturer. She has mediated in a wide variety of disputes involving Commercial, Employment and Workplace disputes, Family conflicts, disputes between young people, including gangs, as well as Restorative Justice work with victims and perpetrators of crime. She also works with global corporate companies as a consultant and coach in leadership skills and conflict management.

She has lectured and given presentations on Coaching, Management skills, Conflict, Restorative Justice and Mediation, at conferences in the UK and Latvia, to legal and business institutions, as well as to Government and Educational organisations. She has researched the potential for the teaching of conflict resolution skills in the schools and community in order to enhance the Government’s wellbeing agenda and intends to publish this work in 2010. She is also working on a book on Existential Coaching and one on ‘Why People say No’.

For the past two years Monica has been Co-Director of her own Mediation, Coaching and Training company (The CH Group - comprising of Community Harmony and Corporate Harmony Limited). The company provides mediation to a diverse client group in both private and public sectors and in the community and holds contracts for providing mediation to some global EAP companies.

Angela Jopling

is an experienced executive coach, organisation development consultant and counsellor.  She has worked in various consulting and line management roles for 19 years in a broad range of industries ranging from focused business consulting, to leadership development and facilitation. Angela is accredited as a coach by both APECS and the Association for Coaching.  She has a Masters in Existential Psychotherapy & Counselling and a Degree in Economics & Marketing.

For the last 8 years Angela has run her own existentially informed executive coaching business, coaching senior leaders in blue chips businesses on developing self awareness and self insight as well as understanding and defining themselves as leaders.  Angela has a passion for helping leaders bring their whole selves to work and to enjoy that opportunity to consciously and authentically chose who they are in any environment.  

Angela has developed a coaching programme to help senior female executives regain their vital selves in the workplace.  As a mother of three young children herself operating in a very demanding environment, Angela is very aware of the challenges and opportunities that might be present and how best to keep oneself truly engaged and alive through demanding times.

 

Jamie Reed

Jamie has for over 10 years been coaching individuals and groups in different contexts, both public and private sector, at every level from small SMEs to directors of global organisations. He has worked as a Case Manager for PPC Worldwide one of the UK's largest providers of Employee Assistance Programmes, managing a national and global team providing Solution Focused counselling and coaching. 

He is a UKCP registered psychotherapist and counsellor with a Masters in Psychotherapy and Counselling and an Advanced Diploma in Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling and certified in NLP Coaching (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), Psychological Coaching, Sport Psychology and the Solution-Focused approach. He is also an accredited mediator working in both the private and public sector.

Jamie is on the academic faculty at Oxford University (FE Department) teaching courses in Introduction to Coaching and Introduction to Counselling Theory and Practice and has taught on the Bar Council/Law Society accredited mediation course at Regent's College, London. He teaches the Ethics module on the Existential Academy's coaching course, and is Co-Director of The CH Group (www.thechgroup.co.uk) which provides Conflict Management and Mediation services. 

 

David Pullinger

David has been a Business Coach and trainer for over 10 years. He is passionate about an existential approach to coaching, helping clients discover greater meaning in their lives, and encouraging them to recognise the choices they have available. He was a Founding member of an interest group called PaCE, Psychotherapy and Coaching Existentially.  David has an MA in Coaching & Mentoring from Oxford Brookes University, and is an accredited mediator.

He has a background of over 25 years in HR and People Development where he held several senior positions and Directorships in a wide variety of industries. David is also a management trainer, working with Boards and senior management groups on issues of change and development in the insurance and education sectors.

He is a part time Careers Coach at Imperial College Business School, where he works with Masters students in their career search, and provides career coaching in the independent schools sector.

David is a Member of the Society of Existential Analysis, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development.

 

Karen Weixel-Dixon

Karen is a psychotherapist, supervisor, trainer, coach and mediator in private practice.  She maintains her work in both the UK and France, and works with individuals, couples, families, groups, and organisations.

The paradigm she favours is Existential Phenomenological, and she has a particular interest in how people experience, and engage with, temporality.

She has published papers in journals, and written chapters for textbooks in the field of psychotherapy, and facilitates fora for professional organisations.

She is the Secretary for the International Collaboration for Existential Counselling and Psychotherapy (ICECAP), an organisation that supports and publicises the projects of psychotherapists worldwide.

 

 

 

Digby Tantam

Digby is a psychotherapist, counsellor, psychologist, and psychiatrist.  He has worked in the NHS for over thirty years, and as a University Professor for nearly twenty.  He is currently Clinical Professor of Psychotherapy at the University of Sheffield, where he is Director of the Centre for the Study of Conflict and Reconciliation, and an Honorary Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy, the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy, and the Higher Education Academy, and an associate fellow of the British Psychological Society.

He has provided life coaching to adolescents and adults with autism spectrum disorders for many years.

 

 

 

Philippa Morrison

Philippa wrote her MA thesis on self monitoring and coaching twenty years ago. Since then she has, in parallel, been at London Business School and has been a private consultant.  At LBS she was the faculty and senior staff development advisor, working in a coaching relationship with the focus being on professional life.  As a private consultant she coached people from every corner of the globe and in every imaginable industry.  She particularly enjoyed supervising other coaches.She has watched the coaching industry evolve, and is keen to take a role in the provision of existential coaching training.